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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Frieda want K. to do about the job offer?
(a) She wants him to take the job.
(b) She wants him to reject the job.
(c) She wants him to negotiate for a higher position.
(d) She wants him to negotiate for time off to be with her.

2. What is the chairman suffering from?
(a) Measles.
(b) Flu.
(c) Gout.
(d) Headache.

3. What does K. worry about regarding Frieda?
(a) That she will continue to sleep with Klamm.
(b) That she will make Klamm angry with her.
(c) That she will leave him when she learns the Castle does not need him.
(d) That she will continue to feel attached to Klamm.

4. At the end of Chapter VIII, where is K.?
(a) At his room in the inn.
(b) At the steps of the Castle.
(c) At the door to Klamm's room.
(d) Alone in the courtyard.

5. What answer does K. get when he calls the Castle himself for permission to visit?
(a) He is told no.
(b) He is told he can come at once.
(c) He is told he must fill out the right forms.
(d) He is told he must wait three days.

Short Answer Questions

1. Does Frieda agree with what K. wants to do about the assistants?

2. Why do the characters have trouble sleeping at the school?

3. What does the chairman say is the reason K. was sent for?

4. What finally happens to the sleigh and the horses?

5. Who discovers Frieda and K. embracing in K.'s room?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the gentleman who comes to the coach while K. is there waiting want?

2. What reason does the landlady give K. that her conversation with him is important, and does her reason seem true, based on the conversation?

3. How does K. discover that Klamm is staying at the Gentlemen's Inn?

4. What happens between K. and the assistants after Frieda gets up in the middle of the night at the school?

5. What is the landlady's relationship to Klamm?

6. What happens when K. first wakes up the morning after meeting Frieda?

7. How does K. react to the gentleman who comes to the coach while K. is there waiting?

8. Who are the people in the house K. stops at on his way toward the Castle?

9. What does the landlady say will happen to the record of K.'s talk with the gentleman?

10. How does the chairman characterize the Castle's bureaucracy?

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